DETAIL : George LAMBERT  Russia 1873 � Australia 1930  'Chesham Street' [Chesney Street; The Doctor; Harley Street] 1910  oil on canvas National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, purchased in 1993 DETAIL : George LAMBERT  Russia 1873 � Australia 1930  'The convex mirror' c.1916  oil with pencil on wood panel private collection
George LAMBERT  Russia 1873 � Australia 1930  'Chesham Street' [Chesney Street; The Doctor; Harley Street] 1910  oil on canvas National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, purchased in 1993
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Lambert and Australia (1894-1900)

From about 1892 until 1894 Lambert worked as a station hand, mustering and shearing sheep, building fences and breaking in horses. Working from dawn to dusk every day he gained what he later described as an ‘incised set of pictures’ in his head, ‘as fresh in their colour & definition as they were at the time of their inception’.

Between 1894 and 1899 Lambert made many drawings for the Sydney Bulletin, and painted images of Australian life conveying the prevalent nationalist mood.

In 1896, at the age of 23, Lambert had his first major success when A bush idyll was purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. In 1899 he was awarded the Wynne Prize for landscape painting for his work Across the Black soil plains.

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